The Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Rise of Spain
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
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🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Queen Isabella of Castile was one of the great state-building monarchs of the later Middle Ages, but state-building had a dark side: the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, and the beginnings of a decades-long war that would consume western Europe for three generations.
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| 0:05.9 | What's going on? |
| 0:08.5 | February of 1481 was a chilly month. |
| 0:21.4 | An iron grey sky hung low over the city of Saville. |
| 0:25.6 | The sweet scent of pine wafted upwards from piles of fresh-cut firewood stacked around |
| 0:31.0 | the bases of six wooden stakes, a scent that mingled with the stink of thousands of |
| 0:36.3 | unwashed bodies crowded into the open square. |
| 0:40.0 | The shouting and jeering of the crowd drowned out the stamping of feet on stone. |
| 0:45.1 | Six men were being led in procession through a gap in the mob toward the stakes. |
| 0:50.0 | Their walk along the rough cobbles of the street left bloody footprints. |
| 0:54.1 | Their faces were bruised and caked with blood from rough treatment. |
| 0:57.7 | They had been pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables and worse. |
| 1:02.1 | One by one, the six men were tied to the stakes. |
| 1:05.4 | A cleric stepped forward, a Dominican clad all in black, and a strong voice that carried |
| 1:10.9 | across the open square he listed their crimes. |
| 1:14.7 | They were conversals. |
| 1:16.3 | Jews converted to Christianity, but they had fallen short. |
| 1:19.6 | He claimed they were judy-isers who had returned to their old ways, that they were guilty |
| 1:23.3 | of circumcision of keeping the Saturday Sabbath and blaspheming the name of Jesus. |
| 1:28.9 | Now they would face the righteous punishment for their crimes. |
| 1:32.7 | Death. |
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